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The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 2 (June 2021)
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Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History
Albert Feuerwerker and S. Cheng
Harvard University Press

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Germany
A Modern History
Marshall Dill
University of Michigan Press, 1961
Studies modern Germany, from its formation to the 1960s
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Hunger
A Modern History
James Vernon
Harvard University Press, 2007

Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, hunger was viewed as an unavoidable natural phenomenon or as the fault of its lazy and morally flawed victims. By the middle of the twentieth century, a new understanding of hunger had taken root. Across the British Empire and beyond, humanitarian groups, political activists, social reformers, and nutritional scientists established that the hungry were innocent victims of political and economic forces outside their control. Hunger was now seen as a global social problem requiring government intervention in the form of welfare to aid the hungry at home and abroad. James Vernon captures this momentous shift as it occurred in imperial Britain over the past two centuries.

Rigorously researched, Hunger: A Modern History draws together social, cultural, and political history in a novel way, to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their history was intricately connected with the precarious achievements of the welfare state in Britain, as well as with the development of international institutions, such as the United Nations, committed to the conquest of world hunger. All those moved by the plight of the hungry will want to read this compelling book.

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The Journal of Modern History, volume 92 number 1 (March 2020)
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University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020
This is volume 92 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 92 number 2 (June 2020)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020
This is volume 92 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 92 number 3 (September 2020)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020
This is volume 92 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 92 number 4 (December 2020)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020
This is volume 92 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 1 (March 2021)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2021
This is volume 93 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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front cover of The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 2 (June 2021)
The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 2 (June 2021)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2021
This is volume 93 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 3 (September 2021)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2021
This is volume 93 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 93 number 4 (December 2021)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2021
This is volume 93 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 1 (March 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 94 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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front cover of The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 2 (June 2022)
The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 2 (June 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 94 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 3 (September 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 94 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 94 number 4 (December 2022)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2022
This is volume 94 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 95 number 1 (March 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 95 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 95 number 2 (June 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 95 issue 2 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 95 number 3 (September 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 95 issue 3 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 95 number 4 (December 2023)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2023
This is volume 95 issue 4 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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The Journal of Modern History, volume 96 number 1 (March 2024)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2024
This is volume 96 issue 1 of The Journal of Modern History. The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading journal worldwide for the study of all varieties of European history. The journal's broad geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: JMH explores not only events and movements in single countries but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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Kimono
A Modern History
Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
Reaktion Books, 2014

What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changing across time and with the perspective of the wearer or viewer.
            Kimono: A Modern History begins by exposing the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century foundations of the modern kimono fashion industry. It explores the crossover between ‘art’ and ‘fashion’ in this period at the hands of famous Japanese painters who worked with clothing pattern books and painted directly onto garments. With Japan’s exposure to Western fashion in the nineteenth century, and Westerners’ exposure to Japanese modes of dress and design, the kimono took on new associations and came to symbolize an exotic culture and an alluring female form. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the kimono industry was sustained through government support. The line between fashion and art became blurred as kimonos produced by famous designers were collected for their beauty and displayed in museums, rather than being worn as clothing. Today, the kimono has once again taken on new dimensions, as the Internet and social media proliferate images of the kimono as a versatile garment to be integrated into a range of individual styles.
            Kimono: A Modern History, the inspiration for a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,not only tells the story of a distinctive garment’s ever-changing functions and image, but provides a novel perspective on Japan’s modernization and encounter with the West.

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Memory
Fragments of a Modern History
Alison Winter
University of Chicago Press, 2011

Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should we trust them to be accurate, or is there a chance that you’re remembering incorrectly? And where have the many details you can no longer recall gone? Are they hidden somewhere in your brain, or are they gone forever?

Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century. Tracing the cultural and scientific history of our understanding of memory, Winter explores early metaphors that likened memory to a filing cabinet; later, she shows, that cabinet was replaced by the image of a reel of film, ever available for playback. That model, too, was eventually superseded, replaced by the current understanding of memory as the result of an extremely complicated, brain-wide web of cells and systems that together assemble our pasts. Winter introduces us to innovative scientists and sensationalistic seekers, and, drawing on evidence ranging from scientific papers to diaries to movies, explores the way that new understandings from the laboratory have seeped out into psychiatrists' offices, courtrooms, and the culture at large. Along the way, she investigates the sensational battles over the validity of repressed memories that raged through the 1980s and shows us how changes in technology—such as the emergence of recording devices and computers—have again and again altered the way we conceptualize, and even try to study, the ways we remember.

Packed with fascinating details and curious episodes from the convoluted history of memory science, Memory is a book you'll remember long after you close its cover.

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A Modern History of the Somali
Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
I. M. Lewis
Ohio University Press, 2002

This latest edition of A Modern History of the Somali brings I. M. Lewis’s definitive history up to date and shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organization. Lewis’s history portrays the ingeniousness with which the Somali way of life has been adapted to all forms of modernity.

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Qatar
A Modern History
Allen J. Fromherz
Georgetown University Press, 2011

What role does Qatar play in the Middle East and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar from a traditional tribal society and British protectorate to a modern state? How has Qatar become an economic superpower with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world? What are the social, political, and economic consequences of Qatar’s extremely rapid development?

In this groundbreaking history of modern Qatar, Allen J. Fromherz presents a full portrait that analyzes Qatar's crucial role in the Middle East and its growing regional influence within a broader historical context. Drawing on original sources in Arabic, English, and French as well as his own fieldwork in the Middle East, the author deftly traces the influence of the Ottoman and British empires and Qatar’s Gulf neighbors on the country prior to Qatar’s meteoric rise in the post-independence era. Fromherz gives particular weight to the nation's economic and social history, from its modest origins in the pearling and fishing industries to the considerable economic clout it exerts today, a clout that comes with having the second-highest natural gas reserves in the region. He also looks at what the future holds for Qatar's economy as the country tries to diversify beyond oil and gas. Furthermore, the book examines the paradox of Qatar where monarchy, traditional tribal culture, and conservative Islamic values appear to coexist with ultra modern development and a large population of foreign workers who outnumber Qatari citizens.

This book is as unique as the country it documents—a multi-faceted picture of the political, cultural, religious, social, and economic make up of modern Qatar and its significance within the Gulf Cooperation Council and the wider region.

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Qatar
A Modern History, Updated Edition
Allen J. Fromherz
Georgetown University Press, 2017

What role does Qatar play in the Middle East, and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar from a traditional tribal society and British protectorate to a modern state? How has Qatar become an economic superpower with one of the highest per-capita incomes in the world? What are the social, political, and economic consequences of Qatar’s extremely rapid development?

In this groundbreaking history of modern Qatar, Allen J. Fromherz analyzes the country’s crucial role in the Middle East and its growing regional influence within a broader historical context. Drawing on original sources in Arabic, English, and French as well as his own fieldwork in the Middle East, the author deftly traces the influence of the Ottoman and British Empires and Qatar’s Gulf neighbors prior to Qatar’s meteoric rise in the post-independence era.

Fromherz gives particular weight to the nation’s economic and social history, from its modest origins in the pearling and fishing industries to the considerable economic clout it exerts today, a clout that comes from having the region’s second-highest natural gas reserves. He also looks at what the future holds for Qatar’s economy as the country tries to diversify beyond oil and gas. The book further examines the paradox of Qatar where monarchy, traditional tribal culture, and conservative Islamic values appear to coexist with ultramodern development and a large population of foreign workers who outnumber Qatari citizens.

This book is as unique as the country it documents—a multifaceted picture of the political, cultural, religious, social, and economic makeup of modern Qatar and its significance within the Gulf Cooperation Council and the wider region.

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Sexual Blackmail
A Modern History
Angus McLaren
Harvard University Press, 2002

Sexual blackmail first reached public notice in the late eighteenth century when laws against sodomy were exploited by the unscrupulous to extort money from those they could entrap. Angus McLaren chronicles this parasitic crime, tracing its expansion in England and the United States through the Victorian era and into the first half of the twentieth century. The labeling of certain sexual acts as disreputable, if not actually criminal--abortion, infidelity, prostitution, and homosexuality--armed would-be blackmailers and led to a crescendo of court cases and public scandals in the 1920s and 1930s. As the importance of sexual respectability was inflated, so too was the spectacle of its loss.

Charting the rise and fall of sexual taboos and the shifting tides of shame, McLaren enables us to survey evolving sexual practices and discussions. He has mined the archives to tell his story through a host of fascinating characters and cases, from male bounders to designing women, from badger games to gold diggers, from victimless crimes to homosexual outing. He shows how these stories shocked, educated, entertained, and destroyed the lives of their victims. He also demonstrates how muckraking journalists, con men, and vengeful women determined the boundaries of sexual respectability and damned those considered deviant. Ultimately, the sexual revolution of the 1960s blurred the long-rigid lines of respectability, leading to a rapid decline of blackmail fears. This fascinating view of the impact of regulating sexuality from the late Victorian Age to our own time demonstrates the centrality of blackmail to sexual practices, deviance, and the law.

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Statelessness
A Modern History
Mira L. Siegelberg
Harvard University Press, 2019

The story of how a much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.

Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth century produced an unprecedented number of people without national belonging and with nowhere to go. Mira Siegelberg’s innovative history weaves together ideas about law and politics, rights and citizenship, with the intimate plight of stateless persons, to explore how and why the problem of statelessness compelled a new understanding of the international order in the twentieth century and beyond.

In the years following the First World War, the legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of cosmopolitan political and legal organization and challenged efforts to limit the boundaries of national membership and international authority. Yet, as Siegelberg shows, the emergence of mass statelessness ultimately gave rise to the rights regime created after World War II, which empowered the territorial state as the fundamental source of protection and rights, against alternative political configurations.

Today we live with the results: more than twelve million people are stateless and millions more belong to categories of recent invention, including refugees and asylum seekers. By uncovering the ideological origins of the international agreements that define categories of citizenship and non-citizenship, Statelessness better equips us to confront current dilemmas of political organization and authority at the global level.

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Texas, A Modern History
Revised Edition
By David G. McComb
University of Texas Press, 2010

Since its publication in 1989, Texas, A Modern History has established itself as one of the most readable and reliable general histories of Texas. David McComb paints the panorama of Lone Star history from the earliest Indians to the present day with a vigorous brush that uses fact, anecdote, and humor to present a concise narrative. The book is designed to offer an adult reader the savor of Texan culture, an exploration of the ethos of its people, and a sense of the rhythm of its development. Spanish settlement, the Battle of the Alamo, the Civil War, cattle trails, oil discovery, the growth of cities, changes in politics, the Great Depression, World War II, recreation, economic expansion, and recession are each a part of the picture. Photographs and fascinating sidebars punctuate the text.

In this revised edition, McComb not only incorporates recent scholarship but also tracks the post–World War II rise of the Republican Party in Texas and the evolution of the state from rural to urban, with 88 percent of the people now living in cities. At the same time, he demonstrates that, despite many changes that have made Texas similar to the rest of the United States, much of its unique past remains.

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